Vocabulary & Matching
This funerary amulet symbolized life.
What is an ankh?
Egypt was called the “gift of the Tigris.”
What is False? (It was the “gift of the Nile.”)
The yearly flooding of the Nile helped people because it left this behind.
What is silt that improved the soil?
The salt-like substance used to dry out a body during embalming.
What is natron?
Egypt is located on this continent and has this type of climate.
What is Africa and a hot, dry desert climate?
A reed-like plant used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
The pyramids were built as huge tombs for pharaohs.
What is True?
Which period was Egypt’s Golden Age?
What is the New Kingdom?
Containers used to store internal organs during mummification.
What are canopic jars?
How did the Rosetta Stone help historians?
It allowed scholars to decode hieroglyphics by comparing the Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic texts.
This object solved the mystery of reading hieroglyphics because it was inscribed in three languages.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Queen Hatshepsut worked to increase equality.
What is False? (She worked to increase trade)
Which group held the lowest social status?
priests, scribes, artisans, government officials
Who are the artisans?
The large stone coffin a mummy was placed in.
What is a sarcophagus?
What did embalmers do with the brain and why?
They removed it through the nose and discarded it because they believed the heart, not the brain, controlled thought and emotion.
This small mummy-shaped figure was placed in tombs to work for the mummy in the afterlife.
What is a shabti (ushabti)?
Ramses II is known as “Ramses the Powerful.”
What is False? (He was known as Ramses the Great)
Which feature most contributed to fertile soil and trade in Kush?
What is the Nile River?
The sacred beetle amulet placed in the wrappings.
What is a scarab?
How did Egypt’s geography support permanent settlement?
The Nile’s flooding created fertile soil, the desert offered protection, and the river supplied water and transportation.
He united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
King Tut is famous because he was extremely powerful and skilled, not because of his tomb.
What is False? (He is famous because his tomb was found mostly untouched.)
Which event caused Kush to adopt Egyptian ways?
What is Egyptian pharaohs conquering Kush?
The collection of spells written in tombs to help the dead navigate the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
Describe the levels of Egyptian society.
Pharaoh
Government Officials
Priests
Scribes
Artisans
Peasants